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Typing diacritical marks skin#

Don't worry, I understand that in this business it is good to listen to users, and to have a thick skin when necessary. However, if you feel you have reason to keep looking, may I ask what it is? Perhaps the answer will help me improve Pinyin Typist. Hopefully I have helped you to see that if you have found Pinyin Typist, then you have already found the best way to type pinyin, with proper diacritical tone marks, in iOS. It turns typing pinyin from a pain into a pleasure." That may sound like marketing hype, but from my research, I believe it is indeed a correct statement, especially if one is trying to type more than a couple of words of pinyin.

In the app description for Pinyin Typist, I say that "Pinyin Typist is the fastest and easiest way to type pinyin, with proper diacritical tone marks, on the iPhone, the iPod touch, and the iPad. Theoretically, one could search, copy, and paste from an app that lists all the Unicode characters, but that's slow, laborious, and cumbersome.Ī native app for typing pinyin that makes good use of iOS interface elements and facilities would be ideal, and Pinyin Typist is currently the only such app in the whole App Store that I could find after exhaustive searching. As for the acute accent and caron buttons on the lower right, they don't work right with all the vowels.) Some web services apparently work, but then one must go to those web pages, wait for them to load, enter your pseudo-pinyin text, wait again for the results to load.and if one happens to be offline, then that's a total no-go, not just a nuisance. (BTW, the Czech keyboard seems to come closest to supporting all the pinyin vowels, but it only has a 3rd tone option for "e", not for any of the other vowels. I would have been required to wait for held down keys that didn't have all the pinyin vowels I needed anyway, even after switching keyboards. Hi, I'm the creator of Pinyin Typist, and I'm glad you found my app! One of the reasons I created it was because when I searched for a way to type pinyin vowels on the iPhone, the iPod touch, and the iPad, I was not able to find one that worked as well as things ought to work on these fine devices.